Re: BD 213 - Art and Corax
((Guessing this is part of things and since he SHOULD always have a faint sense of the ascended ones, even though he can't interact with them, because he was once ascended, I think it's time to play along and have that connection poof.))
Siphon seems to pause for a moment, as if he was testing something, then staggered in abrupt shock. It took him a moment to recompose himself, which Ian in particular might find a bit off about him.
"Indeed something is. Do you remember Coraxus and Ian my telling you because I once died and ascended that I always had some form of connection to the others, could always feel them even though I couldn't actually interact with them? Well ... that link is gone. I can't sense them at all."
Then he was quiet for a time, before finally speaking.
"Alright, we can't track him by power and he's gone missing, Maria's getting weaker here, and I've completely lost the link I had to the others. Which likely means something is causing this to happen. I would have felt it if they had been wiped out, I probably wouldn't be standing actually. So something is dampening it, which possibly means my summon ability will be weakened as well. Now Art was weak earlier, looked sick. He and I were wondering if perhaps the zombie cursed him somehow during the brief scuffle last night, but I'm doubting very much our zombie has the ability to weaken Maria or my link. Which means my earlier thought that there may be a very powerful Lich around is starting to make a comeback."
Another pause then he spoke carefully.
"Ok, you two know him better than I do for sure. Is there any place he might have gone to in order to relax, some place he goes to just to unwind when he can't here? I wish we could find a footprint trail, I could probably track him that way. We need ideas, and we need them soon."